The Spam Spam Spam Humbug crew review the Ultima fan projects that were active in 2015.

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Welcome back to another year of Spam Spam Spam Humbug. This year, to ring in 2016, episodes for the month of January will mostly be focused on re-capping the news pertaining to Ultima, including Ultima Online (which, at least for now, is the only game still in active development that is carrying on the Ultima namesake), various Ultima fan projects, and also different games that have been inspired by Ultima (including Shroud of the Avatar and Underworld Ascendant, as well as — possibly — Shards Online and Crowfall).

This week, we will continue looking at what has transpired with various Ultima fan projects over the course of 2015. You can kind of think of this as a supplement to the poll that's currently under way at the Ultima Codex, in which you can vote for your favourite fan project of 2015.

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